From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Oct 05 07:03:02 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 5 Oct 2001 14:00:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 47503 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2001 14:00:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 5 Oct 2001 14:00:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Oct 2001 14:03:01 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic66.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.66]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f95E30C59644 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:03:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011005095147.00a92f00@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:59:38 -0400 To: Subject: Re: [lojban] How obvious are my type-4's? In-Reply-To: <01100501073011.29287@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11371 At 01:07 AM 10/5/01 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >Here are 39 type-4 fu'ivla which I made up and put on the taxonomy page, >along with the translations. Without looking at the taxonomy page (or Alice >or the Bible - some appear there), tell me which are which. > >phma >--- >djirafa giraffe? >durkuli >fasxolarkto >filcina >flakrokoraka >flundero I'll guess flounder only because I saw it in the English list below. I did not get it without the list. >fragari >frambesi >glauka >glosina >gombesa >kantarelo >kapsiku >krataigo >krokuta >laktuka >manguso >mantode >merlanu >merluci >miptera >mlongena >mugdali >ornitorinku something to do with birds, but no idea which. >perdice >persika probably peach, but only because I just looked up the fruits in the prunus subfamily and noted their etymologies. Then I also know that the word is similar to the Russian for peach, but would not have know it was fruit-related, which would have been necessary to recall that. Note that etymologically, the peach is a "persian plum", and that is all that "persika" is really invoking is "Persian". >platesa >polgosu >rikteropu >salmone salmon >skomberu >sparago asparagus? >stramoni >tarksako >tarsire >tcincila chinchilla >trifoli >xarcufu >xilbate >------------ >aardvark >almond >artichoke >asparagus >bug >chanterelle >chinchilla >clover >coelacanth >cormorant >dandelion >douroucouli >eggplant >fern >flounder >gibbon >giraffe >hake >halibut >hawthorn >hot pepper >hyena >jimsonweed >koala >lettuce >mackerel >mantis >mongoose >owl >partridge >peach >plaice >platypus >raspberry >salmon >strawberry >tarsier >tsetse fly >whiting Note that the only ones I knew were ones that were borrowed in that form into the languages I know. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org